Doctors
(asked on 16th December 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many doctors currently employed by the NHS qualified outside the UK.
The latest data on the number of doctors who qualified outside the United Kingdom is in the following table. This is taken from the Health and Social Care Information Centre’s annual workforce census, which shows the data as at 30 September 2014. The next census will be published in March 2016.
Headcount Data at 30 September 2014
Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) Drs | General Practitioners (GP)(excluding registrars and retainers) | GP registrars | |
Qualified in the UK | 70,470 | 27,807 | 3,585 |
Qualified in other European Economic Area (EEA) Country | 8,307 | 1,600 | 124 |
Qualified outside EEA | 27,398 | 6,403 | 803 |
Unknown | 463 | 9 | 0 |
Source: Health and Social Care Information Centre annual workforce census
Notes: The figures for HCHS doctors includes doctors in training